Welcome to the
Community Nest

What is The Community Nest?

The Community Nest is a space for grassroots changemakers and allies to connect, share skills, and support each other. Together, we’re building a resilient network rooted in solidarity, learning, and collective power. 

  

We provide opportunities for help with admin, training, capacity building, networking and more. We’re on a mission to facilitate a community of learning, kindness, solidarity and respect, creating a space to power change from the ground up.

Find out more

Want to know who is part of The Community Nest and meet the supporting team?

What's on

See our events calendar

We share events that we are hosting, aswell as any from our network, partners or funders that we think might be useful. There is a mix of online and in person events, so hopefully you'll find something that suits you. Please let us know if you'd like us to post an event of your own.

How can we help you?

Learn

Access our free resource library. You’ll find a mixture of webinars, toolkits and worksheets on a range of topics - all aimed at changemakers like you

Connect

Got a sticking point in your project and not sure where to turn? We can point you to services and experts who want to help and who really get it.

Show Solidarity

Sometimes you want to talk with someone who’s been in your position before - and gotten through to the other side.

How can you help others?

Want to help?

With the help of City Bridge Trust, over the next few years, we want to understand the needs and strengths of the changemakers we work with and offer practical learning. 

 

Want to help? Share your skills, offer support, or connect others. Whether it’s admin, training, or practical advice — your contribution strengthens the network and helps build change from the ground up.

Get involved

Fnd out how you can help our community

What can you do?

Share your resources:  We can either host the files or link to where to find them. We don’t want to spend time duplicating good resources if they already exist; we just want to make sure they are accessible to those who need them. These resources could be guides, templates, exercises, videos, etc.

Share your knowledge: Do you have a specialist subject you could offer training on? Have you spent your whole career reading grant applications and gathering tips on how to stand out? Could you run a workshop using exercises that you’ve found useful to reach your goal? You don’t have to be an expert, just sharing your experience is useful.

Join our directory: We’re creating a yellow pages of changemakers, supporters and allies. Could you offer a helping hand when it comes to strategy building, or facilitating? Can you provide legal advice? Are you a whizz at design and branding? Do you offer discounted rates for changemakers and unincorporated groups? We want to hear from you. 

Recommendations: We want to build a crazy strong network, and we want the right people in it. If you know anyone who might be interested in helping our community, please send us your recommendations. 

Can you help in another way? Could you offer the use of your space or office for meetings? Do you have storage space that’s not being used? Do you have volunteer days you’d like to use supporting grassroots change?

Please email our Community Nest team if you’re able to help in any way. We are open to suggestions and so thankful for your time. 

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FAQs

We’re sure you have questions – and we’ve done our best to anticipate them in our FAQs. Still can’t find the answer you’re looking for? Get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.